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News Stele [Audio-Plastic-Visual Installation] Steles, in ancient times, established for the purposes of perpetuation and memory or as territorial border indicators. Although, bearing no caption, the many worldwide scattered steles provide comprehensive information about the cultures that created them. The wall, the pit and the tunnel are modern steles; architectural structures which passes and process information both in material and thematic ways. The wall, in and by itself, adds information as an object which was added to the surface, for example, dividing the unclosed territory or determining borders. The tunnel, on the other hand, being dug beneath the surface, leaves an empty space that alters the information while reducing the existent material. A tunnel is an action of subtracting and hiding of information, a concealed passage. The pit, in comparison, distorts the material. Its construction leaves it apparently as it was. It is being assimilated into the ground, appearing natural, although it will never be as such… the pit, as an abandoned warlike outcome, becomes a memory of battles which glorifies the violence and death while exhibiting an incomplete factual image. In these structures, the material exists as limited information, defined in a closed and finite reality. The wall, the tunnel or the pit are different expressions for processing the actual material. Addition, position, subtraction, excavation, drilling, flattening or sedimentation of the material creates a change in it. The genealogy of the change leaves self seeding on or beneath the surface. Those self-seeding simultaneously exist as revealed evidence for the thing itself and as hidden evidence for what is not there. The architectural structures, once built, become steles, and move away from the primal causativeness of their actual existence. They appear in front of us, though present as their time has passed by. From now on they are only objects of nothing, structures which simply stand there. 'Blind Spot' Group Exhibition; June 5th to October 25th 2008 |